The Virus Hunters

Author : Frédéric Keck
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478007555

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Avian Reservoirs by Frédéric Keck Pdf

After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China. In outlining how interactions among pathogens, birds, and humans shape the way people imagine future pandemics, Keck illuminates how interspecies relations are crucial for protecting against such threats.

Author : C.J. Peters,Mark Olshaker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385485586

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Virus Hunter by C.J. Peters,Mark Olshaker Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book The man who led the battle against Ebola in The Hot Zone teams up with the bestselling co-author of Mind Hunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses. For three decades, Dr. C. J. Peters was on the front lines of our biological battle against “hot” viruses around the world. In the course of that career, he learned countless lessons about our interspecies turf wars with infectious agents. Called in to contain an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia, he confronted the despair of trying to save a colleague who accidentally infected himself with an errant scalpel. Working in Level 4 labs on the Machupo and Ebola viruses, he saw time and again why expensive high-tech biohazard containment equipment is only as safe as the people who use it. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, “vanquished” ones for which vaccines do not exist, there remains a very real danger of a new epidemic that could, without proper surveillance and early intervention, spread worldwide virtually overnight. And the possibility of foreign countries or terrorist groups using deadly airborne viruses—the poor man’s nuclear arsenal—looms larger than ever. High-octane science writing at its best and most revealing, Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone.

Author : Jane Qiu
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008443882

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Author : Joseph B. McCormick,Susan Fisher-Hoch,Leslie Alan Horvitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Virology
ISBN : 0747534888

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The Virus Hunters by Joseph B. McCormick,Susan Fisher-Hoch,Leslie Alan Horvitz Pdf

Ebola, Lassa fever, HIV/AIDS, anthrax, leprosy, meningitis - Drs Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch have confronted, studied, probed and fought them all, case by case and on an epidemic scale. This is their story of a quarter-of-a-century on the front lines of the struggle to hold the narrow line separating humankind from what might well be the true inheritors of the Earth: viruses.;This book combines accounts of cutting-edge medical research with dramatic stories of survival in some of the most remote places on Earth, where the climate, the terrain and the politics can kill just as surely as any disease.

Author : Rick Emmer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Epidemiologists
ISBN : 9781438123578

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Virus Hunter by Rick Emmer Pdf

Presents the history of deadly viruses, their effects on people, and the research of scientists to discover and develop treatments against them.

Author : Joseph B. McCormick,Susan Fisher-Hoch,Leslie Alan Horvitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : 0733603904

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Level 4 by Joseph B. McCormick,Susan Fisher-Hoch,Leslie Alan Horvitz Pdf

Author : Anna Buckley
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474607476

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The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters by Anna Buckley Pdf

BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global health, and why for the scientists working on the front line in the war against viruses, the arrival of Covid-19 came as no surprise. Among the contributors to this all-too-timely book are: Jeremy Farrar, before he became Director of the Wellcome Trust, worked in an Infectious Diseases Hospital in Vietnam. He was on the frontline tackling SARS and nine months later a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu, H5N1. Peter Piot was at the forefront of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. He was the first to identify HIV in Africa. It took him fifteen years to persuade the world that it was also a heterosexual disease. Later as Executive Director of UN AIDS he fought for years to get the UN to take the threat of HIV seriously. Jonathan Ball studies how viruses operate at the molecular level, hoping to find their Achilles' heel and so develop effective vaccines. During the West Africa Ebola epidemic, he studied how the genome of the Ebola virus evolved as it spread from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has shown that as this virus (which more happily lives in bats) infects more humans, it becomes ever more infectious. Wendy Barclay seeks to understand how viruses are able to jump from animals to humans and why some viruses are so much more dangerous to humans than others. Most Londoners had no idea they were infected during the Swine Flu pandemic of 2009. The Bird Flu epidemic in Asia claimed thousands of lives Kate Jones is a bat specialist who works on how ecological changes and human behaviour accelerate the spread of animal viruses into humans. Bats have been infected with coronaviruses for more than 10,000 years.

Author : Bobby Akart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1087890004

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Virus Hunters 2 by Bobby Akart Pdf

We always want to believe history happened to those in the past. Many aspects of historical events were unforeseen. However, not this one. Warnings had been issued, yet the world was unprepared for the invisible enemy that threatened to kill us all. WELCOME TO THE NEXT GLOBAL WAR From the imaginative mind of international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today's headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity from viruses one-billionth our size. "Scientifically accurate, top notch entertainment and electrifying excitement ..." Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions. The hunt for a silent killer continues in this heart-pounding, page-turning thriller. Not even a doctor's white coat is protection from this virus that's one-billionth our size. Dr. Harper Randolph searches for evidence and her gut tells her the answers lie in one of the most secretive places on the planet - China. "Characters are well developed, a plot that is intriguing and a novel that educates the reader at the same time. Most highly recommended! "- Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer With the help of a new partner, she follows the clues and enters the mysterious world of China's underground where both allies and enemies await. The stakes get higher the closer she gets to Patient Zero. Will she find the origin of this novel virus threatening the planet? Will she be silenced by those whose secrets resulted in a global pandemic in the recent past? Bobby Akart has delivered up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. His new Virus Hunters novels will give you pause and remind you that we're in a global war for survival against an unseen foe. "Bobby Akart writes a scientific thriller better than anyone else." SPECIAL DEDICATION: Finally, this series is dedicated to the Virus Hunters - the disease detectives, shoe-leather epidemiologists of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service who work tirelessly to keep these deadly infectious diseases from killing us all. Thank you!

Author : Bobby Akart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1087881684

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Virus Hunters 1 by Bobby Akart Pdf

From the imaginative mind of international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today's headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity from viruses one-billionth our size.

Author : Greer Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Microbiology
ISBN : UOM:39015003213447

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Virus Hunters by Greer Williams Pdf

Author : Bobby Akart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798651269037

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Virus Hunters 2 by Bobby Akart Pdf

We always want to believe history happened to those in the past. Many aspects of historical events were unforeseen. However, not this one. Warnings had been issued, yet the world was unprepared for the invisible enemy that threatened to kill us all. WELCOME TO THE NEXT GLOBAL WAR From the imaginative mind of international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today's headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity from viruses one-billionth our size. "Scientifically accurate, top notch entertainment and electrifying excitement ..." Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions. The hunt for a silent killer continues in this heart-pounding, page-turning thriller. Not even a doctor's white coat is protection from this virus that's one-billionth our size. Dr. Harper Randolph searches for evidence and her gut tells her the answers lie in one of the most secretive places on the planet - China. "Characters are well developed, a plot that is intriguing and a novel that educates the reader at the same time. Most highly recommended!" Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer With the help of a new partner, she follows the clues and enters the mysterious world of China's underground where both allies and enemies await. The stakes get higher the closer she gets to Patient Zero. Will she find the origin of this novel virus threatening the planet? Will she be silenced by those whose secrets resulted in a global pandemic in the recent past? Bobby Akart has delivered up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. His new Virus Hunters novels will give you pause and remind you that we're in a global war for survival against an unseen foe. "Bobby Akart writes a scientific thriller better than anyone else." SPECIAL DEDICATION: Finally, this series is dedicated to the Virus Hunters - the disease detectives, shoe-leather epidemiologists of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service who work tirelessly to keep these deadly infectious diseases from killing us all. Thank you!

Author : Joseph McCormick, M.D,Susan Fischer-Hoch, M.D.
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781631682995

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Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph McCormick, M.D,Susan Fischer-Hoch, M.D. Pdf

"[McCormick has] been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa.... He... worked for days inside a mud hut that was smeared with Ebola blood, on his knees among people who were crashing and bleeding out." —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone Now with a new foreword by the authors about the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Sublimely equipped to survive, to propagate, to conquer, the virus is neither really alive nor really dead. Its dimensions are measured in molecules. It attacks by dismantling its human targets cell by cell. An ancient adversary, resident on this earth long before our evolutionary ancestors arrived, the virus is without conscience or compassion, without mind. It enjoys the advantages of countless numbers and infinite time. It is a being almost too simple to understand and too basic to outwit. We are locked in a war with the virus. Each battle kills some of us. The battles have many names: Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, AIDS . . . Dr. Joseph McCormick and Dr. Susan Fischer-Hoch have met them all; and they have fought them all. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC is their story. It is an intense, personal account of more than a quarter of a century on the front lines—in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that McCormick was instrumental in creating at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet, where the local climate, terrain, and politics can kill as easily as any disease. In the villages of Zaire and Sudan, the ghettoes and rain forest of Brazil, and the nomadic settlements of northern Pakistan, the cutting edge of science meets the deadly universe of viral disease. The elite corps of virus hunters who dare to penetrate these realms combine the unquenchable curiosity and raw guts of intrepid explorers with the training of top-level scientists, the hunch-playing passion of master sleuths, and the compassion of truly great physicians. Told in intimate detail by two of the world's best-known virologists—colleagues, collaborators, husband and wife— Level 4 is a journey across the world and into many strange new worlds: from the seductive beauty of equatorial Africa—a limitless reservoir of infection—to the confines of the all-but-invisible field of the electron microscope. While other books have offered hot zones, sick monkeys, and grim statistics, Level 4 brings home from the world of the virus the human stories of those who lived, and those who died.

Author : Joseph B. McCormick,Susan Fisher-Hoch,Leslie Alan Horvitz
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094639618

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Level 4 by Joseph B. McCormick,Susan Fisher-Hoch,Leslie Alan Horvitz Pdf

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Author : Joseph McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0614970016

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The Virus Hunters by Joseph McCormick Pdf

Author : Gregory J. Morgan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421444024

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Cancer Virus Hunters by Gregory J. Morgan Pdf

Traces the history of the study of tumor viruses and its role in driving breakthroughs in cancer research. Worldwide, approximately one-fifth of human cancers are caused by tumor viruses, with hepatitis B virus and HPV being the leading culprits. While the explosive growth in molecular biology in the late twentieth century is well known, the role that the study of tumor viruses has played in driving many of the greatest breakthroughs is not. Without the insights gained by studying tumor viruses, many significant theoretical advancements over the last four decades in cellular and molecular biology would not have been made. More practically, the study of tumor viruses has saved thousands, if not millions, of lives. In Cancer Virus Hunters, Gregory J. Morgan traces the high points in the development of tumor virology, from Peyton Rous's pioneering work on chicken tumors in 1909 to the successful development of an HPV vaccine for cervical cancer in 2006. Morgan offers a novel approach to understanding the interconnectedness of a long series of biomedical breakthroughs, including those that led to seven Nobel prizes. Among other advances, Morgan describes and contextualizes the science that prompted the discoveries of reverse transcriptase, RNA splicing, the tumor suppressor p53, the vaccine for hepatitis B, and the HIV test. He also explores how "cancer virus hunters" have demonstrated the virtue of beginning with a simple system, even when investigating a complex disease like cancer. Based on extensive archival research and over fifty interviews with experts, Cancer Virus Hunters is a tour de force summarizing a century of research to show how discoveries made with tumor viruses came to dominate the contemporary understanding of cancer. By showcasing the scientists themselves, the book makes for an unusually accessible journey through the history of science. It will be of interest to biomedical professionals—especially in oncology, hepatology, and infectious disease—in addition to historians of science and anyone interested in cancer research.